Ien Lucas

It all is about abstraction.
Abstraction in the art of painting is an ongoing journey.
Searching for the possibilities and boundaries of my paintings, composition, colour, shape, plane and space, detached from any reference or reality.

Materials and the image, everything that turns a canvas into a painting, can evolve from the unfamiliar and unexplored to the more well known domain and back.
The work reflects the daily interactions with painting. The searching for, executing of, preparing, inquiring, correcting, reflecting, registering, taking decision etc.
Where I have once begun from a strict set of lines and planes, restrictions were lifted gradually, and the unpredictable took shape.
Feeling and ratio collided.
The many and diverse artistic experiments resulted in a range of spectacular works with series such as ‘what’s up, what’s down’, ‘van achter, van voren’, ‘crosspoints’, ‘what’s behind’, ‘front attack’ etc.

Postacademie Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, 1983-1985
Artist in Residence, Banff Art Centre, Banff, Canada, 1985-1986
and 1990.
Artist in Residence in Barcelona, stichting Sophia, 1999.

2024;
Gallery Ramakers, The Hague, 30 years, groupshow
Gallery Ramakers, The Hague, groupshow
with Hieke Luik and Babs Haenen
Gallery ArtForum, Antwerpen, groupshow with
Yvonne Mostard and Sabine Lintzen
Priveekollektie Contemporary Art | Design,
Heusden aan de Maas, groupshow
Priveekollektie Contemporary Art | Design,
North Sea Jazz Festival, groupshow


2023;
Gallery Ramakers, the Hague, Art Fair 'Art Rotterdam'

2022;
Gallery Ramakers, the Hague, Art Fair 'PAN' Amsterdam,
Art Fair ' The Hague'
Gallery la Ferronnerie, Paris, group show 'les Aires de la Couleur'
Gallery Ramakers, the Hague, group summer show
Marres, Maastricht, Limburg Biennale

2021;
Gallery Ramakers, the Hague, group show January
Gallery Priveekollektie, Heusden aan de Maas, group show 'Illuminate', January
Gallery la Ferronnerie, Paris, 'Affairs d' etats'
Gallery Ramakers, the Hague, KunstRai 2021, art fair
Gallery Joli, Berg aan de Maas, trio show
Cultuurgebouw Zinder, Tiel, group show 'color'

2020;
Gallery Ramakers, the Hague, duo show
Gallery Priveekollektie, Heusden aan de Maas, group show
Limburg Biennale, Marres, Maastricht, september

2019;
PAN art fair Amsterdam
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